Old Deccan Days: Or, Hindoo Fairy Legends, Current in Southern India

by Mary Eliza Isabella Frere and Henry Bartle Edward Frere

Book Overview

First published in 1868, this volume contains a collection of twenty-four traditional stories from the southern Indian state of Maharashtra. Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845-1911) travelled to India in 1863 to stay with her father, Sir Bartle Frere, the Governor of Bombay. She became fascinated with Indian culture and transcribed these stories from her ayah (nanny and chaperone) Anna Liberata da Souza who had been told them by her grandmother. Expressive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108020771
• ISBN13: 9781108020770
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"